PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Founded 1883.

Official Website:
http://www.mla.org/

Founding Date:
27-Dec-1883

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Chinua Achebe	Novelist	16-Nov-1930	22-Mar-2013	Things Fall Apart
Wayne C. Booth	Critic	22-Feb-1921	10-Oct-2005	The Rhetoric of Fiction
Richard H. Brodhead	Educator	17-Apr-1947		President, Duke University
Claire L. Gaudiani	Educator	1944		President, Connecticut College, 1988-2001
Stephen Greenblatt	Critic	7-Nov-1943		The Swerve
Walter J. Ong	Scholar	30-Nov-1912	12-Aug-2003	Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
Don Michael Randel	Educator	9-Dec-1940		President, University of Chicago, 2000-06

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